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Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, John McCain and yesterday Barack Obama are the four most important candidates that have given speeches at Google. All with good chances, all crowd pleasers and charismatic figures (they must be, or else they wouldn't have been running for president), all with something to prove, al... |
15 November 2007
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The past few days have boiled Google down to the point where an official statement was inevitable on the freedom of speech problem it's been confronting. It looks more like a civic lesson, punctuated with reasons why Google did this and that throughout its almost 9 years of existence. But civic lessons are not b... |
15 November 2007
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1.The speech skill is a wonder. To produce a phrase, about 100 muscles of the chest, neck, jaw, tongue and lips must collaborate. Each muscle is a bundle made of hundreds or thousands of fibers. For the coordination of these muscles much more neurons than necessary are required for contracting the muscles from an ath... |
9 November 2007
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When you call someone "a Neanderthal", you refer to that person as extremely rude and wild. But the more we investigate our extinct cousin, the more we find out about his complexity. A new genetic research even says they could have spoken in the same manner modern humans do. Since the first discovery of a Neanderthal... |
19 October 2007
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Those bat species that emit ultrasounds to spot prey and avoid obstacles present a high variation in the FOXP2 gene, pointing that mutations in the gene boosted the evolution of the bat sonar. The protein encoded by FOXP2 appears to control coordination between mouth muscles and speech. In 2001, it was connected to s... |
26 September 2007
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The first human slang could have been a rudimentary system of visual, tactile and auditive calls, resembling animal communication. But when we acquired the ability of representing objects through symbols and communicate to another individual our own mental creations, we turned ourselves different from the rest of the... |
4 August 2007
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The complex human speech is one of our traits that definitely separates us not only from other animals, but also perhaps from our extinct relatives. It is believed that Homo sapiens appeared about 150,000 years ago, but a sudden boost in its evolution was given by the emergence of the language some 50,000 years ago. ... |
3 August 2007
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Ever tried convincing your wife/girlfriend that you're still at the office, when you're out for a drink with your buddies? I'm sure you did, so I'll go on. Ever wondered what gives you away? Definitely you talking very loud. Here's what I suggest you should buy before your next guys-night-out... |
9 May 2007
11:31 GMT |
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